New multi-stakeholder partnerships will advance the SAMOA Pathway, the blueprint for achieving sustainable development in small island developing states that was adopted in 2014 in Apia, Samoa.
The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) 2016 focuses on how vulnerable population groups and communities are disproportionately affected by climate hazards.
UN climate experts will brief the media on the outcome of the General Assembly and the latest developments on the Paris Agreement.
27 September 2016 – With some 6.5 million people dying [...]
Unless progress speeds up considerably, the world's LDCs will miss the growth targets they have set themselves by the target date of 2021, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson warned.
Partners of a new UN-led platform to mobilize and accelerate action on climate resilience agreed today to move ahead with plans that will help meet the needs of a growing global population that is being impacted by climate change.
Twitter and UN Global Pulse today announced a partnership that will provide the United Nations with access to Twitter’s data tools to support efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted by world leaders last year.
The pledges, made by long-standing and new partners in the Every Woman Every Child movement, are part of new commitments in support of the the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents' Health.
“I will always fight for the equality of the LGBT members of our human family,” the UN chief said.
The High Level Panel on Water, consisting of 11 sitting [...]
“I am confident that, by the time I leave office, the Paris Agreement will have entered into force,” Ban Ki-moon said.
Collective effort to address a challenge to health, food security, [...]
World Environment Day is an annual global celebration to raise awareness and action for the protection of our environment.
The High Level Panel on Water, which consists of 11 sitting Heads of State and Government and one Special Adviser, issued today a Call to Action that advocates for a fundamental shift in the way the world looks at water.
The following States are expected to deposit their instruments of [...]
UN Women unveiled the first-ever HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report in which 10 leading global universities lay out concrete commitments toward achieving gender parity.
One year since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for [...]
The assembled organizations agreed that access to clean and sustainable energy can transform broken lives, create empowering opportunities and bridge the humanitarian-development divide.
“Solutions will involve everything from regulation to disruptive innovation – and everyone from world leaders and chief executives, to educators, activists and citizens,” Mr. Ban said.
